new Ryanair routes

[no, no, no]

Ryanair have announced they are to commence 7 new STN routes from 1st May:

BERGERAC 1 x daily
BLACKPOOL 2 x daily
GRONINGEN 1 x daily
LEIPZIG 1 x daily
OSTEND 1 x daily
PALERMO 1 x daily
RODEZ 1 x daily

twice daily Blackpool????????????

[Buster the Bear]

Using slots gained at Stansted via the purchase of Buzz?

With disruption of the west coast railway due later this year, Blackpool might be a good route.

[Hooligan Bill]

Also Virgin Trains have either already or are in the process of dropping the direct Blackpool/London service. This once again means a change to/from a local service at Preston or Manchester.

[MerchantVenturer]

If FR can succeed on the Stansted-Newquay daily 12 months of the year rotation, I would have thought that Blackpool would be a piece of cake, even with two returns a day.

I thought FR was mad to start STN-NQY but it seems to be working out ok.

[Buster the Bear]

I cannot wait to fly up there! Only place I know that puts gravy on ya chips! Now I can visit for the day, ride on the trams, swim in the sea, eat candy floss and cr@p myself on the pleasure beach and all thanks to the slots acquired by the take over of Buzz.

Now If I was a Buzz bear, I would be VERY hacked off with KLM!

[Small Pilot]

I'd be interested to see if the Ostend route works? Used it years ago out of Southend when BAF/Air UK ran it with a Herald. Took about 25mins if I remember. I still enjoy a trip over in the Summer in a club aircraft - are FR going to go like me - VFR at 2500' ? ! Surprised it's not meen marketed as Brussels(west)!

[Wycombe]

...or Bruges (makes a nice day trip having parked the puddlejumper at EBOS)

[Smoketrails]

And what about Maastricht? From the 30th of April they will be operating here too! Bruges is Ryanair's targetcity.

[gremlyn]

RYR to BPL

Buster - remember, at Blackpool you can't swim in the sea: ya just go through the motions...

[Fuji-san]

Anyone noticed the BERGERAC has mysteriously disappeared overnight.

Rhoada Gorrocks